When Shuqing returned to Longmen Town from Erlang, she received an invitation from the director's wife, who was very happy to hear that she was back and wanted to see her very much, so she specially invited her to come over for dinner and chatter. The director's wife and Shuqing grew up in a village, when everyone still lived in the original village (later the people in the village moved to the place near the town to build a house to live), the two families are very close neighbors, one of the two families will drag the child to the other when they are busy with farm work, she is a few years older than Shuqing, when she was 20 years old, she married Zhang Danfeng, the son of the town mayor who was a few years younger than herself, Zhang Danfeng later became the director of the town police station, Shuqing has always jokingly called her the director's wife. But the relationship between the two is really good, and the director's wife doesn't get angry but likes it when she hears the nickname. The director's wife also helped Shuqing get a job at the town police station, and later helped Shuqing work in the Hechuan Public Security Bureau. At that time, it was difficult to find a job, especially if you wanted to work in a public institution, it didn't matter, even if you had the ability, you might not be able to work, she had always been very grateful to the director's wife for her help, and they had been in contact with each other during Shuqing's absence in Longmen, and they had been in telephone contact since the communication was developed. The director's wife is now sixty years old, but she still looks young, she is very tall, about 170 tall, taller than many other women in the town, tall, strong arms, not as fat as middle-aged and elderly women, she has given birth to three children, a son, two daughters, and now they all work in the city.

"Shuqing, long time no see. As soon as Shuqing stepped into the courtyard of the community, the director's wife greeted her. Looks like she's been waiting for a long time. Shuqing walked up with a quick smile and hugged her. The director's wife wore a gray and linen suit, a pair of blue trousers, and a pair of black leather shoes, which looked generous and decent.

"Come back and don't say a word, you can stay in my house. The director's wife said with a little reproach. Then she laughed a little and continued, "I made your favorite braised eggplant." "Oh, by the way, how is Guangzhou?Is your nephew still alone?" "When will you go back to Chongqing?" The director's wife asked a lot of questions, and Shuqing didn't have a chance to answer at all, so she smiled the whole time and waited for her to finish. Until they walked into the house and sat down at the dinner table, the director's wife kept talking, talking about the changes in the town over the years, about her life, about her children, and she said, "Look, Shuqing, the town has changed so much, I don't think you know it anymore." ”

"Oh yes, it's changed so much. I didn't see the school when I came, where did our elementary school go?" Shuqing said, picking up her cup and taking a sip of tea. Oh, it's her favorite lemon honey, and Mrs. Director always understands her so well.

"Haha, it's been demolished early. There have been too many demolitions in recent years, and now they have moved out of town. It's right there at the entrance of the field. You don't know, the town wants to make this a scenic spot, Longmen Mountain Scenic Area, the top is being repaired, the bottom is also being repaired, and batch after batch of developers have come. Lao Zhang and I still like the way it was, but times are changing, we are both old, and when Lao Zhang retires, we all want to move to the city to live with our son. You see it's a mess here. The director's wife said. Her eyes drifted out of the window, and there was a rumbling sound in the distance, the sound of an excavator working.

The director's wife seemed to care about the town and couldn't do anything about it. Unlike Shuqing, she has lived here for decades and has never left. And Shuqing is destined to float, like a dead leaf, falling from a tree and experiencing strong wind and rain, and can no longer find his way home.

"Lao Zhang is about to retire, right?"

"Well, I'm ready to retreat. Oh yes, why did you suddenly come back this time. The director's wife said, she withdrew her eyes from the window and looked at Shuqing with some sternness.

"When will Lao Zhang come back?" said Shuqing, she didn't want to talk about the purpose of her return, and now she didn't know what was going on. She didn't want to lie in front of the director's wife, because she knew that her lie would be recognized by the director's wife immediately before she finished speaking. She could never escape the sharp eyes of the director's wife.

"Is it inconvenient to tell me?" said the director's wife, her voice very nice, like an old grandmother asking her granddaughter. Mrs. Director has a characteristic, when she is about to get angry or upset, her voice will become very nice and gentle, making you think that it really doesn't matter, but the next step you will immediately find out that you have been fooled.

"Oh, my friend......" Shuqing looked a little embarrassed. But the director's wife didn't give up because of her embarrassed expression, she stared straight at Shuqing, and there was a kind of staring at her until she told her the reason for coming back.

Mrs. Director has witnessed almost every important moment in Shuqing's life, in addition to Mrs. An, another important friend to Shuqing is Mrs. Director. In a sense, the director's wife and Shuqing are closer, they are friends who grew up together, and have experienced all the absurdities of adolescence, such as fights, skipping classes, and secret loves. She had barely been back since the death of the handsome man with curly hair, except for the occasional visit to her parents, and even then, she had left the day after she returned. But this time she knew that she had been back for a few days, that her parents had died, and that as far as she knew, she was probably the director's wife who had a nostalgia for this town. However, she didn't look for her in the past few days when she came back. This made the director's wife very confused, and she thought that there must be something trapped here, and it was a very important matter that she had to handle herself.

"Lao Zhang is not here today, he won't come back for dinner, he will go to Zhu Hui's funeral. So, tell me what the hell is important. I don't want to hear it from the rest of the town. The director's wife insisted.

"What did you listen to?" asked Shuqing.

"Is it fashionable to have young husbands and old wives now? I don't know. The director's wife said. She held her mouth, the wrinkles around her mouth were connected into a line, and the years had carved indelible marks on her face.

"Hahaha, what you heard from Zeng Qin?" said Shuqing, and she laughed happily.

Zeng Qin, a well-known long-tongued woman in town, said she knew the whole process. According to Zeng Qin, Shuqing brought a handsome man back from the city, about 42 years old, a full 13 years younger than Shuqing, but that man was very rich, because he drove a high-end car that she had never seen before, and all the things she hadn't seen were either high-end or garbage, obviously Land Rover off-road was high-end goods in Zeng Qin's eyes. She said that Shuqing took the rich young man around town and lived together in the house that her parents had left her. "What a shameless old thing, seducing young men". In the end, Zeng Qin came to a conclusion.

If you stay a few more days, it is estimated that everyone in Zhaojia Village will know that you brought a young man back to show off. The director's wife said. Zhaojia Village is the 12th Brigade, because most of the village is surnamed Zhao, so it is named Zhaojia Village, Zhaojia Village is the farthest village from the town, if the people who live in that village want to go to the town to catch the market have to catch up with the twenty miles of mountain roads, they have to start rushing before dawn, hurriedly buy the necessities and have to rush back non-stop, otherwise they will have to take the terrible night road, legend has it that there are ghosts and monsters on the mountain roads in that area, because many years ago there was a Mr. Duan Gong who saw the ghost fire on that road, and then became crazy and upside down.

"Haha, that's Xiaowen's son-in-law. Shuqing said, and she took another sip of the lemon honey that the director's wife had refilled for her. By this time, they had finished their meal and were sitting on the comfortable sofa in the living room of the director's wife's house.

"Xiaowen's son-in-law, what is he doing here?" said the director's wife in a sharp voice.

Shuqing took another sip, as if encouraging herself to tell the director's wife what she knew. When Shuqing told everything she knew about the bureau director's wife, she had already opened her mouth wide in surprise, she never opened her mouth wide, she said that she was a fool.

"It's really weird, I think that Li Zhen looks quite familiar, and she hasn't been happy in the years she has been in town. The director's wife said thoughtfully, and she finally closed her mouth.

"Is she often beaten?"

"Oh, she's often bruised, but who knows if she was beaten or if she caused it herself. Oh, by the way, Zhu Hui once stood up for her. ”

"They have a good relationship!"

"It looks like this. They are often together. But why did she come back? Hu Sheng only came back from prison a few days ago!" The director's wife looked at Shuqing and suddenly thought of something, "In this way, it can't be Hu Sheng—"

Shuqing shook her head, disagreeing with the director's wife's speculation.

"Now there is no evidence, don't guess. Don't tell Lao Zhang about this matter first, I'm afraid that something will happen again. Shuqing said.

The director's wife waved her hand and said: "It doesn't matter if he knows whether he knows or not, he is about to retire, now he is just a name, he has no real power, his job is to attend an inconsequential meeting, to appease his family or something, and now the affairs of the institute are in charge of Li Mao, who was transferred from the city." However, this kind of thing will not be taken care of by the institute, they are all more than one thing, how to save trouble. Unless it is a particularly big case, or the person concerned has caused trouble to the media, or the city bureau has given a task, they will not take the initiative to investigate anything. Hey~" Obviously, Mrs. Director is very dissatisfied with this situation, but she can't help it. To be honest, I didn't believe that Hu Sheng would kill anyone, and I thought he was good to Li Zhen. Oops, it turns out that Li Zhen is An Xiaowen's daughter. Oops~"

"You don't believe that Hu Sheng will beat his wife, do you?" said Shuqing in a deliberately emphatic tone.

The director's wife shook her head, "I-it's hard to say!"

"I should have told you earlier, but you know Xiaowen, she's a proud woman. Shuqing suddenly changed the subject, and she was very sorry for hiding something from her good friend.

The director's wife shook her head and said, "I don't like An Xiaowen very much, and I don't want to get involved in her affairs, it's right for you not to tell me." ”

Shuqing looked at the director's wife and smiled, she was still angry with An Xiaowen. When An Xiaowen first arrived in Longmen, he stole the limelight of the director's wife, if it weren't for An Xiaowen, the director's wife would have always been the limelight in Longmen, of course, it was not this that made the director's wife angry, but An Xiaowen teased a man that the director's wife liked very much at that time. Of course, An Xiaowen just thought it was fun, and he wasn't really emotional, so the director's wife had never had a good impression of An Xiaowen. She also often reproaches Shuqing for giving kindness to such a woman. "The women in the city are really so profligate. This is the director's wife's evaluation of An Xiaowen.

"I met Chen Xianhui yesterday, and she didn't want to believe that Hu Sheng would kill people and kill Zhou Zhiwen, but she didn't avenge Hu Sheng at that time!" Shuqing said, shaking her head, indicating that she didn't understand Chen Xianhui's approach at all. "Do you really think someone is illegally profiting by controlling the drugs in the insane asylum?"

"Well, it's hard to say. The director's wife said. She looked a little hesitant and seemed to be making a big decision. Shuqing saw her hesitation, so she raised an eyebrow at her, as if asking, "What? What do you think?"

"Oh, no. Mrs. Director shook her head, she looked a little uneasy, and the wrinkles on her forehead were wrinkled together by thought. "I was thinking, if you really want to know about the madhouse, maybe we can check it out. Eventually, she spoke. "But the madhouse is not a place to live!" she added.

"You know I don't believe that! But under what pretext do we get in?"

"I think there should be no problem if the wife of the head of the town police station wants to visit a friend. Mrs. Director said with some hesitation.

"Hehe, but what friends do you have...... Sook-ching was sure that Mrs. Director had no friends living in an insane asylum, and if she did, she would have told her in one of their correspondences. Speaking of this, Shuqing remembered something, and she suddenly stopped the topic. She understood the reason for the director's wife's hesitation, there was indeed a "friend" in the madhouse, and that person was indeed a friend of the director's wife, the one who was hiding in the grass of Longmen Mountain, and she and her sweetheart with handsome curly hair passed by Zhu'er Stone (a scenic spot on Longmen Mountain, named because it looks like a pig. ), pushing the stone on it and smashing it to death (the investigation said it was an accident, but Shuqing firmly believed that it was a madwoman...... Shuqing didn't want to think about it, she didn't want to think about his broken head and his cheap brain. The mad woman was going to smash her, and she wanted to cause an accident, because there were often rocks falling down from the top of the mountain, and similar accidents had happened before. But Shuai Juan pushed Shuqing away, and the stone fell on him, and the mad woman didn't expect her to hit Shuai Juan, the man she also loved deeply, and made her make a living with the idea of killing Shuqing. When she heard Shuqing's cry and jumped down from it, she saw Shuai Juan lying under the rocks with a broken head, and the madwoman cried out like crazy, and slapped Shuqing, yelling that she had killed him. And then she was put in an insane asylum, pathetic woman. It's all because of love. Not all love in this world is wonderful or blossoming, perhaps this is why Shuqing has always been single.

"If you don't want to ......," said the director's wife.

"Then go see her. Shuqing raised her head as she spoke, looking at the director's wife, her face expressionless. "Go see that crazy woman. She said.